Interoperability Streams

PoS

2025-05-31T20:38:00.001-06:00

Day after day, week after week, Robert pummeled me with the challenge."Daniel," he said, "Let's take these old cane rods off of the wall and go try them on the river."The river was scant feet away. We had endless skeins of graphite, fiberglass, and cane between us and it. Why. That. Fucking. Piece of. Shit. Post-WWII. Japanese. Rod, for gawd's sake, Robert??It's a learning opportunity

FeE: Yarn of The Matrix

2024-12-23T06:26:00.000-07:00

I learned the term 'matrix' in math and earth science class before seeing the Matrix movies or thinking of the Latin root (mater), so have had to wrap my head around common use today. My conception is the matrix is the boundary between chaos and order, both being the unfolding of human consciousness. That unfolding is our journey back to our original estate. We

Towers of Babel

2024-12-17T12:29:00.000-07:00

The commonly used definition of insanity is mistaken. Real insanity is repeatedly doing the same thing with no expectation of results. American public safety agencies have steadfastly neglected the need for communications interoperability since, oh, shortly after the Detroit Police Department heated up the tubes of station KOP in 1922. Failures in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13th

April Fools?

2021-04-01T20:38:00.000-06:00

National Security Needs Both Futurists and TraditionalistsTechnological change is not new. Nor does a focus on technology at this particular moment make one a blinkered “futurist.” Technology is an instrument of national power that feeds and in turn is fed by other elements of national power. With so many technologies with potentially transformative applications emerging at once,

Survivalism - The Emerging Movement (1981)

2021-01-31T13:30:00.006-07:00

This monograph was prepared as an independent research project for undergraduate credit. It was subsequently presented to a couple audiences at the behest of my professors.Some forty years later, the material is curiously topical again. The sociological focus was sound, as attested to by professors who used the material, recommended it to others, and suggested I use it as the basis for a

A New Leaf

2021-01-31T13:12:00.005-07:00

After many years of serving mostly as a means of bookmarking items of interest for myself, this blog is turning over a new leaf. In the future it will be mostly my original work - some historical, some current. It will serve as the point of initial publishing of copyrighted works. dh

More Calls for FirstNet Interoperability

2020-01-13T18:56:00.001-07:00

Public TV Stations Push FCC to Mandate FirstNet Datacasting Interoperability - Broadcasting & Cable: Datacasting is a novel and potentially valuable adjunct to other forms of public safety communications.

Interoperability 20/20

2020-01-01T21:31:00.000-07:00